Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy said that infrastructure projects need to be completed by the government on priority and emphasised the requirement of three working shifts, not just one. The comment was made by him while discussing the need to bring development in his home city Bengaluru in the...
79 per cent of IT/ITES employers anticipate a rise in apprentice recruitment in the upcoming months according to the recent ‘Apprentice Skill Trends Report’ of Quess Corp. According to the report, there has been a 250%+ annual increase in apprentice headcount in the IT/ITES space. The spike in...
The question is not of law or creating deterrence, it is all about mindset of people, how they view the women at workplace, because people working in institutions are coming from the same society which has deep rooted biases against women.
The law must take care to protect women of differing perceptions and comfort levels. At the same time, the reaction of the complainant cannot be entirely unreasonable. A "calibrated balance" would have to be struck between rights of a victim of sexual harassment and those of the delinquent employee.
It is not enough to have just rules in place, the intent to implement should be there. A law requiring proforma setting up of overseeing body with no teeth to prosecute the perpetrators borders on useless.
In our day-to-day practice, we have observed that inapplicability of the law in industry requires many gaps and illusions to be addressed by the framers of the law. The enactment has been framed by the legislator considering the situations at that time. But our society is progressive and our law...
